Nellie Dale
Female, Deceased Person
1865 – 1967
Who was Nellie Dale?
Ellen "Nellie" Dale was a British school teacher who created one of the earliest books on teaching reading.
The earliest school-based literacy education was started by Dale at Wimbledon High School from 1892 to 1909. Ms Edith Hastings, to whom Dale dedicated her book On the Teaching of English Reading, was headmistress of Wimbledon High School for Girls from 1880 to 1908.
Dale published several books, starting in 1898 with On the Teaching of English Reading with J M Dent & Co., London, England. This book taught the alphabetic principle and phonemic awareness. She taught the voiced and unvoiced consonants, vowels and silent letters by using different colors
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